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July 7, 2020, 7:50 AM

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Ina Fried / Axios:
TikTok to pull its app from Google Play and App Store in Hong Kong in light of new security law, says it doesn't and wouldn't share info with Chinese government  —  TikTok said Monday night that it would pull its social video platform out of the Google and Apple app stores in Hong Kong amid …
Paul Mozur / New York Times:
Facebook, Telegram, Google, and Twitter say they have suspended requests for user data from Hong Kong police, following a new national security law by China  —  The social network said it would review the city's punitive new national security law, a rare public questioning of Chinese policy by a large American tech company.
Arjun Kharpal / CNBC:
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says the US is “looking at” banning TikTok and other Chinese social media apps amid rising tensions between US and China  —  - The U.S. is “looking at” banning TikTok and other Chinese social media apps, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Monday.
TechCrunch:
Palantir says it has confidentially filed an S-1 draft registration with the SEC for an IPO  —  Secretive surveillance startup Palantir said late Monday it has confidentially filed paperwork with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to go public.  —  Its statement for the secretive …
Jessica Toonkel / The Information:
Sources: Microsoft has expressed interest in acquiring the games division of Warner Bros., publisher of game franchises based on Batman, Harry Potter, others  —  Microsoft has expressed interest in acquiring the games division of Warner Bros., the publisher behind popular game franchises based on Batman …
Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge:
A list of some tech companies the SBA says have received PPP loans of more than $150K; Bird and Index Ventures say they are wrongly listed  —  Scooter companies, AV startups, LIDAR manufacturers among companies receiving PPP loans  —  Bird, the beleaguered e-scooter company …
Casey Newton / The Interface:
Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat:
Fraunhofer announces H.266/VVC, a new video compression standard that it says cuts file sizes by ~50% compared to its predecessor without compromising quality  —  Having engineered the popular music encoding format MPEG-3 before developing the widely-used video formats H.264 (AVC) and H.265 …
Reuters:
US House Judiciary Committee says the CEOs of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google will testify at a hearing on July 27 related to an antitrust probe  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The chief executives of Amazon.com (AMZN.O), Apple (AAPL.O), Alphabet's Google (GOOGL.O) and Facebook (FB.O) …
Anna Wiener / New Yorker:
An overview of the recent debates surrounding content moderation, online censorship, and Section 230, as well as some proposals for reform  —  The debate over censorship and Section 230 is thorny, contentious, and, above all, outdated.  —  On March 7th, Dan Scavino, Donald Trump's director of social media, posted a video to Twitter.
Ilya Banares / Bloomberg:
Canadian privacy watchdog says Clearview AI will cease offering facial recognition tech in Canada and suspend its contract with RCMP  —  Canada's privacy watchdog said facial recognition software provider Clearview AI Inc. will no longer offer its services in the country …
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